And now we'll wrap up today's show with your calls on detoxing from anything other than alcohol as a 2024 New Year's

resolution. Why do I ask well last week we held a call in for those of you who

participated in dry January, right?

That common New Year's resolution in which drinkers voluntarily go sober for the

first month of the year. We invited your stories about what you got out of the

experience and whether or not your month of sobriety had a lasting impact on your relationship with alcohol.

And the great cause we got during that call in got us thinking, there are a lot of other messy

entanglements in our lives apart from alcohol and the New Year is often a

catalyst for reflecting and creating changes in many parts of our life. So listener, listeners, what's something

that you are seeking to change your relationship to in the new year? Detox from what, other than alcohol, 212 433, WNYC.

Maybe there's something you're cutting out of your life for the entirety of January or even all of 2024 what is it and

what's your game plan two one two four three WNYC four three three nine six nine. Here's some examples of what I think we might hear but definitely

looking for what you are detoxing from in any realm of your life other than alcohol.

I'm sure a lot of you out there might be looking at your screen time

on your smartphones and thinking that's a dependence you'd like to let go of in 2024.

Our society-wide smartphone addiction is so obvious.

Have you ever had the experience of looking up from your phone on the subway,

let's say, and just seeing that every other passenger

is looking down at their phone.

Just this past Saturday, the New York Times published a piece in which one of their tech

reporters, Kashmir Hill, did you see this,

traded in her smartphone for an old-fashioned flip phone in order to combat the screen time addiction, she now believes that dry January should be

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